That Aud Smell

If you're a franchise, is that a sound way to do business? I tend to think not.

What are you - some sort of reasonable person? (Works best with a Butthead voice.)

Soon after that deal, I glommed onto the thought (from a Blues blogger?) that Thompson could do with some more seasoning in the A. What are the chances that he starts in Roch?

Ah, fair. Okay. Situationally driven, then?

I was thinking that Berglund was all but penciled in as the underwhelming 2C. I mean - there's no way Mittelstadt gets that responsibility. Is there?

Ain't gonna lie. I'm a little fuzzy today and voted for more than 4 in each category. Not by design. I think I was focused on "6" in "top 6."

Do I recall correctly that Berglund plays center as well?

Aye. Oy.

My druthers: He gets until next season to sort all this out. (I.e., he doesn’t play this season.)

You sure? The Twitter action I see insists it was real for several hours. It says “coming soon, the first official” one. This page apparently went live for a few hours.

Haven’t verified if real, but, if it is .... Purports to be a screenshot of the depth chart page on the Bills’ website.

This campaign has been an unmitigated embarrassment for Graham and now Vogl. FFS. I have my own strong dislike for Harrington. But what those guys are doing is a terrible look. I can’t imagine their new employer can be pleased. It certainly turns me off.

What are you talking about, bruv?

Anyone have a handy site to visit for the most current transfer news?

oh, yeah - i'm up in there. i posted that here because it was apropos of the discussion regarding whether an intra-career number change is cause for concern. (spoiler: it's not.)

The electrifying Sadio Mane is switching from #19 to #10 after the coveted #10 became available because of Coutinho's departure to Barcelona. As a devoted fan of Liverpool, I am totally okay with this.

Btw, there are also reports of an incident that occurred in/around 1990 in which a woman complained (criminally? maybe for civil damages?) that she was at a picnic and Kelly hit her in the face with a water balloon (that she claimed was filled with beer) and caused her an injury to her mouth and teeth. The write-ups for that are pretty amusing. #fourorfivebeers

I think so, and agreed. Here's pieces of the report from 1988: In legal papers that attorneys for Ms. Lyons have been trying to serve on Kelly since Monday evening, she claims she suffered neck injuries when the Bills quarterback allegedly threw her to the floor during a Dec. 20, 1987, incident at La Boom Club, 3036 Seneca St., West Seneca. In her lawsuit, Miss Lyons claims Kelly manhandled her after she criticized, in front of other bar patrons, his recent play. .... Tobia insisted that Miss Lyons deliberately started an altercation while Kelly was dining with his parents and other guests in a private room at the West Seneca club and was thrown out of the restaurant after she allegedly poured a drink over Kelly's head without provocation. One of Kelly's guests mistook Miss Lyons for a friend of one of Kelly's relatives, and she was being introduced to Kelly when she allegedly poured the drink on his head, Tobia said. Although Miss Lyons charges that Kelly threw her to the floor after she criticized his play, Kelly contends he merely grabbed her hand and said, "Are you crazy?" when she doused him, Tobia said. "He denies knowing her, or ever talking to her or ever making any kind of obscene gestures or comments toward her," Tobia said. Same here.

I do recall hearing about that. I think we're talking about something a little different. Something more pervasive, ongoing.

I think that's mostly fair. I want to say that I've never heard one peep - not a rumour, nothing - about him being an abuser. But if we accept, as I think we must, that he was boozing and putting stuff up his nose and running around, then it is not a huge leap to think he may have hit women too. Booze and coke are a combustible combination. That is quite clear. My wife and I have this debate sometimes: If we think the way in which someone found salvation, call it what you will, was cheap or poorly reasoned or eyeroll inducing, is it any less valuable? You can't really argue with the results, in this case. Same. I was a teenager when Kelly came on the scene and I was college-aged when the Bills were in their glory. I consumed every available piece of information about the team, then and for many years after. Shoot. I was once rocked off of well liquor and Budweiser at the Big Tree Inn and on another occasion was all muzzy from table Italian red at Ilio DiPaolo's, and heard people who knew Kelly personally telling stories of his mischief and misdeeds. But I never heard them say that he hit his wife or anyone else. (And, to be clear: These people were dishing - they were not holding back.)

Well, if we accept as true that he was drinking heavily, using booger sugar, and chasing tail, it’s not a huge leap to imagine abuse too. And if the abuse was in fact kept quiet by the media, that’s perhaps a reflection of the times.

The hula hoop thing at Larkinville is peculiar to the dog and pony show the franchise has done twice for highly touted 1st round draft picks. Dahlin rode about the same circuit that Eichel did — Dahlin got firefighters instead of kids at Roswell, I think. Still my favorite Eichel moment: “Hey, everyone, this is Jack too!” Or something like that. Sod off. This is a thread for critiquing their creative marketing efforts.

That was pretty good. Funking well right you are. I hadn’t even thought of that angle.

Yeah - the more I think about it, the more I can't recall any such claims being made. Can you provide a link, @Hoss?